4th

The Emperors of Chocolate
By: Joel Glenn Brenner

Comments:

1. Milk and chocolate are natural enemies: milk is 89 percent water, chocolate 80 percent fat. But they blend together making a delicious milk chocolate flavor.

2. Even the Aztecs and Christopher Columbus had chocolate back then. Chocolate has been eaten and invented even back then.

3. Chocolate is a potion of love between women and men. It was believed to cure love.

4. Chocolates have chemicals that we human also have. That is why chocolate is good for people.

5. It helps us girls when we have our period for the blood flow. I do always crave for chocolate.

Questions:

1. How was chocolate a fever reducer?

2. Is chocolate dangerous for your health since it has a chemical like the one in marijuana?

3. Chocolate really came from cocoa beans?

4. What is bad about chocolate other than giving you acne?

Vocabulary:

1. Elixir: a sweetened solution of a drug in alcohol and water pg. 94

2. Apothecary: occupations pg. 100

3. Velvety: soft and smooth in a way that suggests the feel of velvet pg. 101

Literary Terms:

1. " But milk chocolate like gold possesses special, some say supernatural, powers." Simile pg. 91

2. " They go mad with joy when the substance is both sweet and fatty." Personification pg. 97

Overview Sentence:

1. The way chocolate was first made and discovered in this world also if it was good or bad for you.